Warne to co-host Top Gear Australia
October 21st, 2009 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANIMelbourne, Oct.21 (ANI): He’s known for his love of fast cars, and now Australia’s spin king Shane Warne will be revving up television screens as the host of a new series of Top Gear.
Warne, whose stable of luxury cars includes a head-turning black Lamborghini Superleggera, is set to front a new series with Jeremy Clarkson, reports The Herald Sun.
He is likely to host six episodes of the popular motoring show.
In a TV coup, Channel Nine is believed to have snared the rights to the motoring franchise from SBS.
Nine and SBS were both believed to have been in discussions with BBC Worldwide, which owns the rights to the motoring show fronted by Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
First-run episodes of Top Gear regularly top one million viewers on SBS.
Nine has confirmed that it has held discussions with Warne to host Top Gear Australia. No formal agreement has yet been signed, but he is their pick to host the series.
A Nine source says an agreement is likely to be completed within days.
Warne would be well suited to the hosting gig with his passion for luxury cars well documented. Warne’s collection of luxury cars started in 1996 when he bought a Ferrari 355 Spider. He has since bought another Ferrari - a 360 Spider in titanium - two Mercedes four-wheel-drives, two BMWs, and a Holden VK Commodore and a Lamborghini. (ANI)
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